Team SAFF: A RWBY Story

The Ripper Part 2

The scene begins with Bleu opening her eyes as she looks at the ceiling of the room that she and her team were staying in at the base. She sits up and pulls out her scroll to see that it was 4:30 in the morning. She looks around the room to see that Evelynn, Ahri, and Akali were still sound asleep and smiled as it reminded her of the times when she and her team were still students at Beacon Academy. Back when things were still nice in the world. Even though she had graduated years ago, she still felt the same pain Azure feels ever since the fall. She couldn't even imagine what she would be doing if what happened to Azure happened to her and her team when she was still a student. Then again, Azure had lost his whole team before they could even get through their third year. Bleu, realizing that she couldn't go back to sleep gets out of bed as quietly as she could be and walks out of her room. She makes her way to the base's mess hall to get some breakfast, but then pondered the question, who would be making breakfast this early?

Bleu arrives at the open doorway that led to the mess hall and at the first glance, she saw Ivan sitting on a chair, staring at a picture he held in his hand. She tried to get a good look at the picture but that's when...

Ivan: You're up early.

Bleu widens her eyes before putting a smile on her face as she enters the room.

Bleu: Are you getting lessons from Sky these days?

Ivan: Would you like to get some as well?

Ivan turns his head to Bleu and they both start chuckling.

Ivan: Would you like to join me?

Bleu: Sure.

Bleu sits at the table with Ivan and still sees the picture in his hand. Normally when Bleu was around, Ivan would always hide the picture as if he was trying to hide something from her. But he still had it out and continued to stare at it.

Bleu: So... Why are you up so early?

Ivan: All that swimming that Azure and I did yesterday took a lot out of me, so I decided to go to bed at like one in the afternoon. How was your time with Evelynn?

Bleu's cheeks go red with a blush.

Bleu: It was good.

Ivan: Just good?

Bleu: Huh?

Ivan: Come on, you know you can't hide anything from me. I see how you look at her.

Bleu: I uh...

Ivan: Seven years.

Bleu looks at Ivan as he stares at the picture.

Ivan: It took me seven years to finally tell the woman I loved how I felt, and just when things were looking bright, I lose her on the same day. (eyes start to tear up) I was born with the Semblance to take the hits for my teammates and I still failed. I lost my friends, my family, and my first love, all in one day. After that, I wished that I didn't wait so long. I wished that I could go back and change when I... (sigh) Look Bleu, what I'm trying to say is... don't wait too long. Because we never can know how long we'll have that feeling before someone or something comes to take that away.

Bleu looks at the photo to see a younger Ivan and his lost love Tory. She then saw the pure sadness in Ivan's eyes as he still felt the pain of her not being here with him and she places her hand on his. Ivan looks at Bleu to see her smile, which he returns with his. The two are suddenly interrupted when they notice Fang and Hannah limping into the room. Bleu looks concerned while Ivan notices the bruises around Hannah's neck and Fang's face.

Ivan: You both look like crap.

Hannah flips Ivan the bird as she grunts in pain from lifting her arm up.